We live in a world where politicians use Twitter as a main tool. Times are changing.
It was meant to be a comment about Twitter becoming more politically correct, rather than a comment about the tweet in question.
Saying Trump shared a "deceptive video" is what's deceptive here and helps him get re-elected since every normal person can see it's clearly not deceptive and the media and Twitter are lying.
I guess techcrunch.com is just chasing clicks, it's hard to see what's stupidity and what's A/B testing these days.